Autophagy in Cancer: Current Advances and Challenges
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Research".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 203
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Interests: cell death; autophagy; solid cancer; neuro-endocrine; epigenetics
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Dear Colleagues,
The recent discoveries on autophagy have highlighted its key role in tumorigenesis, cancer progression and morbidity. Autophagy, acting as a catabolic process, is a double-edged sword in cell survival and its impairment is responsible for cellular alterations, which in turn lead to tumorigenesis.
This Special Issue will collect research articles and reviews focusing on the mechanism of autophagy and its involvement in cancer. Recent advances are highly appreciated for submission. Nonetheless, basic, translational, and clinical research studies will be considered for publication in this issue.
Dr. Pietro Di Fazio
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- current therapy based on autophagy modulation
- alteration of autophagy and tumorigenesis
- autophagy key players
- recent advances in cancer therapy
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